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Child Custody Crisis:27 March 2009The position of men in the family is not based upon equality with women.Fatherhood is not the equivalent of motherhood, nor the support for it. Theparticular right of fatherhood is the right of men to take up a social position ofauthority over women and children. This is not an interchangeable position, forfatherhood is accrued solely to men. Social policies which encourage the presenceof men in all families, and support the role of father, perpetuate sexualinequality and discrimination against women.Their is little doubt that eloquent organized feminist extremism, and highlysubjective family courts are the major threat to the right of children to beraised in their father custody.Under no fault divorce, equality is the rule: Either spouse can terminate amarriage without the other spouse's consent and without any fault committed by thecast off spouse or even alleged by the spouse initiating the estrangement.When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule. By makingallegations of fault against the father, the mother can usually get the familycourt to grant her their children and his money.Despite Supreme Court decisions upholding the fundamental right of fathers to thecare, custody and control of their children, and despite a very high standard thatthe government must meet in order to terminate parental legal rights, fathers areroutinely denied due process when it comes to determining child custody afterestrangement.Family courts use a highly subjective rule called the best interest of the childas recommended by court appointed child custody evaluators or psychotherapists.There is no requirement that they have any first hand experience with raisingchildren, and they are allowed to use their own personal prejudices to recommendoutcomes.Family courts routinely rubber stamp child custody evaluators who recommendmothers custody with the fathers getting so called visitation only every otherweekend. This is despite the mountain of social science research which proves thatthe best interest of the child of estranged parents is usually to give the childequally shared parent time.(a) Children who feel close to their fathers are significantly more likely toenter college and significantly less likely to have a child in their teen years,be incarcerated, and show various signs of depression.(b) Young males are significantly more likely to engage in criminal activity whenraised without a father, and even more likely to do so if they live in aneighborhood with a high concentration of fatherless families.(c) Father involvement is considered a significant factor in developing empathy,the ability to understand how others feel.(d) Children of involved fathers are more likely to receive appropriate healthcareand less likely to be injured.(e) Father involvement is equally important for the behavioral outcomes of boysand girls.Yet, family courts typically rule as though fathers have no value except theirmoney, and routinely banish fathers who have not been proven to have committed anymisdeed from the lives of their children, except for every other weekend, causingintense feelings of deprivation and depressive behavior.Westminster courts are presumed to be based on an adversarial system with eachside arguing its best case, subject to standards of due process, evidence andproof. Somehow, that doesn't function in family courts.Some lawyers advise mothers to manipulate the process by using a three steptechnique: (1) make domestic violence or child abuse allegations, (2) demand fullcustody, (3) collect large amounts of child support.If the father objects to this process, the mother can make more accusations. Theevaluators then call it a high conflict estrangement and give custody to themother, declaring that shared parenting won't work.
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